The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1887-07-14
MYSTERY OF RED HAIR.
rHE CONCLUSIVE DEMONSTRATION
MADE BY AN ARTIST.
No Such Thing as Real Red Hair-Tho
Sunset Headed Maiden Is Never Stupid.
Glowing Locks on the stage--In Lit
erature

Sunset Headed Maiden Is Never Stupid.
Glowing Locks on the stage-In Lit
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"Red hairl There's no such thing!' :
exclaimed young and we'll known artist
who has passed many days I'm sunny
italy the other afternoon as lie prom
enaded up Fifth avenue with an equally
well known swell. They had Just come
from lunching at Delmonico's at the
swell's expense, and the latter had just
remarked, after the manner of his kind:
''By Jove, just look at that we'd headed
girl crowssing ovah heah; she gives me q
sunstrolle, dontchcr know"
'Why don't people call colors by their
proper names? went on the eXasperated
artist as they passed the Brunswick.
''But, my deah fellah, doEtcher know
what Navy Anderson says, a wose by
any other name would smell as sweet
and if we'd hair isn't wed, why, it looks
wed all the same,'' and as this logic
seemed irrefutable there was silence until
the two men disappeared within the>por-
tails of the Knickerbocker club.
The reporter, who had overheard this
conversation, determined to unsolve the
mystery Of red hair, and at dusk sought
the artist in his studio to find out what
color red hair was. The artist was look
ing picturesque and kind, and was pleased
to mix on his palette three different
shades Of red, three of yellow and three
of brown.
TWO OR THREE CoLORs MIXED.
"Now" said he, with the air of the col
lege professor who pauses to catch the
class with some startling question, point
me out the color that is like red hair"
The reporter couldn't do it. He lowered
about the orange color as the small boy
around the circus tent, but could not
touch it. He almost singled out one of
the sickly looking browns, but the reds no
skipped entirely.
"Give it up
Thought you would" said the artist,
condescendingly. "What people call rcd
hair is mixture of two or three colors,
according to the shade OF red Now, look
here. If dab my finger in this yellow
and mix it with that red, what do get!"
''Why, exactly the color of hair the girl
had today"
81 told you So" said the artist, land
don't let any one ever convince you that
there Is such a thing as real rcd hair.
Call it red If you choose, but don't think Of
1t as the same color as a train lantern or q
coaching parasOf, because you will be way
Off. Adelaide Nelson had red hair, you
know, one of the most beautiful tints, and
Willie Winter spoke of it as the burnish-
ed gold that fioated around her royal
head so if you choose to take that term
you will be nearer the truth
1t IL said by those who ought to know,
and no one has contradicted the state
mert, that a red haired girl is never q
stupid girl. She is always quick of speech
and quick Of action. Red hair brings
with it quick intelligence and generally
great sensibility. When it comes with
blue eyes and brown brows and lashes thu
owner is of sentimental turn of mind
and usually very musical; with brown
eyes and dark lashes the red headed girl is
noted for her beauty of complexion-gen-
orally an ivory white-her love of exercise,
and Is very frequently endowed with great
dramatic ability.
STRONG, EMOTIONAL NATURE.
Red hair always goes with strong, emo
tiOnal nature, and the red haired girl
laughs and cries at the theatre when her
black and yellow haired sisters sit silent.
She is creature quick to anger, easy to
please, q lovable darling when she likes
you, but sharper than a two edged sword
and as bitter as early gooseberries when
she doesn't.
"Who are our red headed girls and
women:''
Those on the stage arc we'll known Mrs.
james Brown Potter is perhaps the most
interesting. Her hair is considered her
greatest beauty. 1t isn't the reddish"
red hair, but it looks like bronze, touched
with tint of golden flame here and there.
Mary Anderson, who has light brown hair,
by the way, raves over Mrs. Potter's hair
and wishes hers was like it.
Kate Claxton has what is called real
red hair-the bricky, carroty, dark red
tint-but 1t is not bit unbccoming. It's
so soft and silken, so plentiful and curls
in loose ringlets, and then 1t has been such
q salvation to her, so she says, for when
fire meets fire they run apart, and she
owes her miraculous escapes from burning
hotels to her ruddy hair.
In the literary world red hair Is in
tensely admired. Emerson loved IL, James
WhitcOmb Riley has written many poems
on it and in one calls 1t nut brown hair
with golden CLEAN, - and Dante Gabrielle
Rosetti's wife, who died when very young,
had hair of yellow red, long and curling.
He buried all his poems with her, but the
friends who had wished for his fame had
them removed few years afterwards and
found that the beautiful red hair had
grown and twined itself all about the
manuscript.
In our literary world of to-day there are
many women with red hair.
In the social world there are many red
headed girls and women who are both
bellies and beauties.
Among the great army Of girls who
earn their living in tho large dry goods
stores there are many with red hair which
society bellies would give great deal of
money to possess.
A lady artist gives few hints as to
what colors red beaded people should
wear:
''Those who have hair verging on brown
look well i'm anything. Most red headed
people should avoid crimson; pink Is be-
coming to. pale golden red hair and very
fair complexion;. green Of all shades to all
shades Of red hair; blue Likewise; yellow
to be avoided except by those with auburn
hair; black especially becoming; also Law
ender. New York Journal.
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